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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Happy Tuesday! Welcome to the Party in Your PJs Link Party, where your posts will be seen on four different blogs each week. In addition to Kim from The Cookie Puzzle, you'll also find Party in Your PJs every Tuesday evening at Grandma Ideas, Wood of Bell Trees and... here!

You'll also find the Awesome Life Friday link-up here at RCHReviews, every Thursday evening at 8pm ET so we hope to see you there as well.

Are you ready to party? I can't wait to see what you've brought to share!

Meet the Co-Hosts

Kim is a small town girl who love simple things. Simple cookies, simple crafts and simple people. She is a wife, mother to one son and two adorable fur babies. Slightly addicted to reality TV and sitcoms, but she loves curling up with a good book or a good walk while listening to podcasts. You can find her at The Cookie Puzzle, where she shares her love for cookies and crafting.

How is this: Nina is wildly in love with her grandchildren. She delights in doing activities with them that strengthen their relationship –- playing games, doing crafts, snuggling, reading stories to them, and cooking together. She enjoys reading, technology, and traveling. (Tahiti is her most favorite place on earth!)

Lynda lives outside DC with her husband Michael and elderly beagle, Sadie. She and her daughter Jackie started RCHReviews as a way to spend time together in spite of living across country, and along the way they've added several friends as regular contributors. Between them all, they bring together many different perspectives and lifestyles with one common philosophy - try new things, have fun, and remember you are awesome!

2. Just like the party anything goes, but clear wonderful pictures with great descriptions are most successful.

3. Please no Spam ( Spammers will be deleted without warning)
4. If you pin to the Pinterest Board, please link to the Party in Your PJs Party also, the party runs from 7 pm Tuesdays-Midnight Saturday (Central Time)

5. Finally have fun and share this group board with blog friends and followers! The more success the group board is the more success you will see from your pins.

Want to be added to the group board? Follow our Party in Your PJs board and email Kim at thecookiepuzzle@gmail.com

All links are pinned to a Party Board...you can follow the board on Pinterest...feel free to follow the board, there is lots of inspiration to be found there.

Ok...let's party!

Rules
-Link to post, not your home page
-Link to something YOU made, wrote or thought
-No Etsy or Business Pages
-Link Parties, Roundups and Giveaways welcome
- Don't Link and Run! Please visit other links, make friends, learn something new, leave a comment, we all love comments
-If you were featured, grab a"Featured" button, found below.
-Consider adding our Party button to your Party Page or Post.

Monday, August 29, 2016

Clearly, I'm aware there are innumerable
ways to make grilled cheese sandwiches. I think any form of pan fried sandwich
that includes cheese is considered a grilled cheese, and lately they've gone from the simple home-cooked comfort food of our childhood to trendy menu offerings at several popular restaurants.

However, I've only had it one way. My
favorite way - the classic grilled cheese sandwich. Regular buttered white sandwich bread with one slice of american
cheese. I'm very particular about HOW to make it and some of that
will be seen in this post, but I've never tried other ingredients.
Until now!

Pizza grilled cheese sandwiches are now a family favorite in this
house, and they're a great alternative to ordering pizza.

Here's how its done!

Pizza Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Ingredients (Per sandwich!)

2 slices white sandwich bread

1 tbsp butter

½ cup mozzarella cheese

6 pepperoni slices

1 tbsp marinara sauce

2 pinches garlic powder
ANY OTHER DESIRABLE PIZZA TOPPING*

Butter bread directly. It creates a
much better effect than melting butter in a pan.

Lay both slices of bread buttered side down (so that the butter will be on the outside of the sandwich) next to each other.

After about 30 seconds (this can vary
based on how hot pan is - just let bread firm up a bit), add your
toppings, cheese first. Stack toppings on ONE piece of bread so empty slice
can easily be moved.

Flip empty slice of bread on top of
topping filled slice.

Squish sandwich with spatula to 'glue'
together.

Carefully flip sandwich over.

Once you have achieved desired grill
level, add a pinch of garlic powder, and flip over to toast the garlic powder into the bread.

Repeat with other side of sandwich.

(Note - an alternative would be to soften the butter in advance, and mix with garlic powder before spreading on the bread.)

We usually go totally kid friendly and serve with fries, but this would be great with a side salad as well! If you are a fan of the classic 'soup and sandwich' combination, try this with a cup of Tomato-Basil soup - perfection!

Thursday, August 25, 2016

We're so looking forward to seeing what you've been cooking, creating, growing, decorating, reviewing, giving away, and thinking about this week!

While you're here, leave your posts at the other link up we co-host here - Party in Your PJs! It starts on Tuesday evenings, and runs through Sunday. I hope you'll join us there as well!

We're currently taking things easy here at RCHReview - our writers are busy moving or having babies or getting ready to send their kids back to school, or getting in a vacation before the end of the month, but here's a bit of what some of us have been up to over the last week:

We hope you'll check it out if you haven't already! Don't forget to peek at the sidebar and check out what other giveaways we currently have going.

~~~

And now our favorite part - the FEATURES! We missed the party last week, so these are from two weeks ago. If you're one of our featured posts, we'd love it if you'd grab a button, and thanks to all of you who shared with us last week!

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Happy Tuesday! Welcome to the Party in Your PJs Link Party, where your posts will be seen on four different blogs each week. In addition to Kim from The Cookie Puzzle, you'll also find Party in Your PJs every Tuesday evening at Grandma Ideas, Wood of Bell Trees and... here!

You'll also find the Awesome Life Friday link-up here at RCHReviews, every Thursday evening at 8pm ET so we hope to see you there as well.

Are you ready to party? I can't wait to see what you've brought to share!

Meet the Co-Hosts

Kim is a small town girl who love simple things. Simple cookies, simple crafts and simple people. She is a wife, mother to one son and two adorable fur babies. Slightly addicted to reality TV and sitcoms, but she loves curling up with a good book or a good walk while listening to podcasts. You can find her at The Cookie Puzzle, where she shares her love for cookies and crafting.

How is this: Nina is wildly in love with her grandchildren. She delights in doing activities with them that strengthen their relationship –- playing games, doing crafts, snuggling, reading stories to them, and cooking together. She enjoys reading, technology, and traveling. (Tahiti is her most favorite place on earth!)

Lynda lives outside DC with her husband Michael and elderly beagle, Sadie. She and her daughter Jackie started RCHReviews as a way to spend time together in spite of living across country, and along the way they've added several friends as regular contributors. Between them all, they bring together many different perspectives and lifestyles with one common philosophy - try new things, have fun, and remember you are awesome!

2. Just like the party anything goes, but clear wonderful pictures with great descriptions are most successful.

3. Please no Spam ( Spammers will be deleted without warning)
4. If you pin to the Pinterest Board, please link to the Party in Your PJs Party also, the party runs from 7 pm Tuesdays-Midnight Saturday (Central Time)

5. Finally have fun and share this group board with blog friends and followers! The more success the group board is the more success you will see from your pins.

Want to be added to the group board? Follow our Party in Your PJs board and email Kim at thecookiepuzzle@gmail.com

All links are pinned to a Party Board...you can follow the board on Pinterest...feel free to follow the board, there is lots of inspiration to be found there.

Ok...let's party!

Rules
-Link to post, not your home page
-Link to something YOU made, wrote or thought
-No Etsy or Business Pages
-Link Parties, Roundups and Giveaways welcome
- Don't Link and Run! Please visit other links, make friends, learn something new, leave a comment, we all love comments
-If you were featured, grab a"Featured" button, found below.
-Consider adding our Party button to your Party Page or Post.

Monday, August 22, 2016

So I don't know about y'all, but my family
eats the same like four meals over and over on repeat. We have a 7 year
old and (almost) 2 year old, so we try to be accommodating, which
leaves us with few options. Meanwhile, I also have a Pinterest account
filled with new fun and exciting recipes I keep meaning to try, so we can break out of this rut.

This is based on one I've seen a few times over and the way I ended up making it.

Hot Ham & Swiss Rolls

Ingredients

1 can Pillsbury Pizza Crust

1 9oz pack honey ham

12 slices swiss cheese

½ cup butter

1 tbsp dijon mustard

1 tbsp worchestershire

2 tbsp brown sugar

1 tbsp poppy seeds

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Lay out either cling
wrap or foil to assist in rolling up, and unroll the pizza crust on top of it. Using
hands or a rolling pin, stretch it out a bit, maintaining a rectangular
shape.

Lay ham slices flat, overlapping,
covering all of the crust.

Lay swiss slices over ham 4x3 rows.

Starting with the long side, roll up
tightly. (Don't forget to pull off the cling wrap or foil as you go!)

Pinch seam closed, and turn over, seam
side down.

Gently cut into even slices, roughly an
inch thick. I managed 11 pieces.

Lay pieces flat into a greased pan.
Avoid over crowding so they still puff up. I ended up using two pans
for this reason.

In a saucepan, melt butter with brown sugar,
Worchestershire sauce, mustard and poppy seeds on medium heat. Whisk
together until smooth.

Pour evenly over rolls.

Bake for 25 minutes or until rolls are
golden brown.

I think next time I will likely try
with cresent rolls to create a fluffier crust. I'm also interested in
trying this with a more melty cheese like chedder, or even American.
This could go well with many sides - we went with a simple potato
salad. Enjoy!

Thursday, August 18, 2016

We're so looking forward to seeing
what you've been cooking, creating, growing, decorating, reviewing,
giving away, and thinking about this week!

While you're here, leave your posts at the other link up we co-host here - Party in Your PJs! It starts on Tuesday evenings, and runs through Sunday. I hope you'll join us there as well!

We're currently taking things easy here at RCHReview - our writers are busy moving or having babies or getting ready to send their kids back to school, or getting in a vacation before the end of the month, but here's a bit of what some of us have been up to over the last week:

We hope you'll check it out if you haven't already! Don't forget to peek at the sidebar and check out what other giveaways we currently have going.

~~~

And
now our favorite part - the FEATURES! We missed the party last week, so these are from two weeks ago. If you're one of our featured
posts, we'd love it if you'd grab a button, and thanks to all of you who
shared with us last week!

Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Happy Tuesday! Welcome to the Party in Your PJs Link Party, where your posts will be seen on four different blogs each week. In addition to Kim from The Cookie Puzzle, you'll also find Party in Your PJs every Tuesday evening at Grandma Ideas, Wood of Bell Trees and... here!

You'll also find the Awesome Life Friday link-up here at RCHReviews, every Thursday evening at 8pm ET so we hope to see you there as well.

Are you ready to party? I can't wait to see what you've brought to share!

Meet the Co-Hosts

Kim is a small town girl who love simple things. Simple cookies, simple crafts and simple people. She is a wife, mother to one son and two adorable fur babies. Slightly addicted to reality TV and sitcoms, but she loves curling up with a good book or a good walk while listening to podcasts. You can find her at The Cookie Puzzle, where she shares her love for cookies and crafting.

How is this: Nina is wildly in love with her grandchildren. She delights in doing activities with them that strengthen their relationship –- playing games, doing crafts, snuggling, reading stories to them, and cooking together. She enjoys reading, technology, and traveling. (Tahiti is her most favorite place on earth!)

Lynda lives outside DC with her husband Michael and elderly beagle, Sadie. She and her daughter Jackie started RCHReviews as a way to spend time together in spite of living across country, and along the way they've added several friends as regular contributors. Between them all, they bring together many different perspectives and lifestyles with one common philosophy - try new things, have fun, and remember you are awesome!

2. Just like the party anything goes, but clear wonderful pictures with great descriptions are most successful.

3. Please no Spam ( Spammers will be deleted without warning)
4. If you pin to the Pinterest Board, please link to the Party in Your PJs Party also, the party runs from 7 pm Tuesdays-Midnight Saturday (Central Time)

5. Finally have fun and share this group board with blog friends and followers! The more success the group board is the more success you will see from your pins.

Want to be added to the group board? Follow our Party in Your PJs board and email Kim at thecookiepuzzle@gmail.com

All links are pinned to a Party Board...you can follow the board on Pinterest...feel free to follow the board, there is lots of inspiration to be found there.

Ok...let's party!

Rules
-Link to post, not your home page
-Link to something YOU made, wrote or thought
-No Etsy or Business Pages
-Link Parties, Roundups and Giveaways welcome
- Don't Link and Run! Please visit other links, make friends, learn something new, leave a comment, we all love comments
-If you were featured, grab a"Featured" button, found below.
-Consider adding our Party button to your Party Page or Post.